News from the GlassFish Community

The main focus of the GlassFish 4 release clearly is providing a Java EE 7 implementation that developers can use right away. However, besides Java EE 7 a small number of important changes were included in GlassFish 4. These changes include Admin Console enhancements, background execution support for long running commands, better support for REST/SSE in the administration API, log format changes, domain configuration defaults and better OSGi administration. In a detailed blog post, Bhakti Mehta describes two of these changes - Admin Command Framework enhancements to better support progress notification via SSE and support for executing admin commands in the background. We discussed some of the GlassFish 4 specific features during the JavaOne 2013 GlassFish BOF (slides below).